as in pretty
to some degree or extent
these newly acquired in-laws felt relatively comfortable at our family reunion
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Recent Examples of relatively
China’s relatively weak growth has added urgency to the government’s push to reshape the economy.
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David Goldman, CNN Money, 14 May 2026
Despite the field being relatively young in Thailand, the country has seen a significant surge in research and interest.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 May 2026
Unlike the subduction zones found in Chile and Japan, Cascadia is relatively silent.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 14 May 2026
This is encouraging performance for relatively modest hardware, and should ensure the game scales well across builds.
—Adam Ismail, The Drive, 14 May 2026
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David Goldman, CNN Money, 14 May 2026
Despite the field being relatively young in Thailand, the country has seen a significant surge in research and interest.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 May 2026
Unlike the subduction zones found in Chile and Japan, Cascadia is relatively silent.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 14 May 2026
This is encouraging performance for relatively modest hardware, and should ensure the game scales well across builds.
—Adam Ismail, The Drive, 14 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for relatively
Adverb
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Sandburg’s Quinn Durkin actually developed a pretty good itinerary.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026
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Making contact with the phone and sending it sailing through the air had to feel pretty good after her first kick attempt came up empty.—
Sean Joseph OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
13 May 2026
Adverb
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According to the brothers, the home — despite appearing quite elegant, with its portico, white balustrade, five bedrooms, carved fireplaces and a music room — has long been in decay and would cost millions of dollars to restore.—
Eric Adler
May 12,
Kansas City Star,
12 May 2026
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Church-goers who aren't quite ready for lunch food will love this delicious brunch dish.—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
12 May 2026
Adverb
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But Sean Payton’s team was also abnormally good in one-score games, won its final two against division foes without their starting quarterbacks, played a third-place schedule and stayed fairly healthy — until overtime of the divisional round, at least.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
15 May 2026
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That's a fairly small sum, although many of her most famous dance cuts arrived long before iTunes, and sometimes decades before Billboard introduced the tally.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
Adverb
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That means viewership around such stuff is smaller, and the networks need to show that ads are reaching not the most people, but rather the most likely people to be interested in a bottle of soda, a specific kind of running shoe, or a new weight-loss drug.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
15 May 2026
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That’s because the government’s gas tax isn’t collected right at the pump, but rather at the wholesale level.—
Wyatte Grantham-Philips,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026
Adverb
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For much of my life, my mother’s side of the family—consummate New Englanders, some of them descended from a passenger on the Mayflower—seemed somewhat foreign to me.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Although prices have since pulled back somewhat, prices in Europe, the United States, and Singapore remain well above pre-conflict levels, and cost pressures on the aviation industry remain significant.—
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CNBC,
18 May 2026
Adverb
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Despite evidence that the two got along well enough, rumors spread in Vienna after Mozart’s death that Salieri had poisoned him.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Freezer-friendly, microwave-safe, and sturdy enough to survive a ride on NJ Transit.—
Emma Laperruque,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 May 2026
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“Relatively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relatively. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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